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I was just recovering from 7 operations in 2018 and 2019, and started going to the gym for exercise during the cold winter early in 2020. I had to stop going to the gym then for the obvious reason, and ended up buying a treadmill off Amazon for home use. They were severely backordered for all...

If you have forgotten what a whippersnapper is, you are too old to be one.

I thought you Brits had unlimited petrol from the North Sea rigs?

Sewer systems are starting to have clog problems because people using things like paper towels for pseudo-TP. It doesn't break apart like real TP does.

Cat scissors $4. https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Grooming-Scissors-Curved-1136-C/dp/B0002Y1Q84

I did a small amount of trimming around the ears with my cat scissors. They have a really blunt end so you can't stick yourself with them.

Sorry they sold off days ago. The "order again" button on Amazon goes to an "unavailable" error message.

The face masks I ordered off of an Amazon partner showed up today. At the tail end of a list of partners there was one that would ship immediately from stock in IL. I ordered from them Monday and it arrived today (Saturday). A box of 50 surgical masks for $34 shipped. Not bad stuff. The...

I've already survived my worst needle encounter: pericardiocentesis. They have you lie on your back and stick a needle through your ribcage down to the pericardium. It was left in from Monday through Thursday last December. After that I can probably get through anything.

Well we got a large earthquake to add to our issues here in Idaho. It was almost 100 miles away from me, up near Stanley in the Sawtooth Mountains area. A magnitude 6.5 gets diluted by the time it gets down here. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/th...cid=spartanntp It's tough being in...

In related news, Krzysztof Penderecki has died. He dedicated his second violin concerto to Mutter - I've got the DGG recording of her playing it with Penderecki conducting the LSO. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/krzysztof-penderecki-influential-polish-composer-dead-obit-974815/

Sources have been quoted that the average American uses 100 rolls of TP per person per year. That's two a week per person. That's a crazy huge amount. The last time I changed a roll I noted that in my daytimer. I want to see how long it lasts in my house - I live by myself so I'm the only user.

A college friend was the CEO of a hospital in California. He retired last year. Did he just get lucky?

Today Idaho has finally promulgated its stay-home edict. https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2020/03/statewide-stay-home-order_032520.pdf It must be difficult to state in a few words whether a business is essential or not. 1) Your tree blows over and blocks your...

Things aren't too bad here. Ada county (pop 400K) lists 21 cases thus far. I don't believe the reports that say warmer weather will defeat the virus. The CDC site shows the lowest rate of infection in the northern rockies right now. And it's late summer in Australia right now. I'm mostly...